Measuring device.



PATBNTED MAY 2, 1905.

J. BANNET. MEASURING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 25, 1904.

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WITNESSES lUNiren STATES Patented May 2, 1905.

JACOB BANNET, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO AARON GARFUNKEL- AND LOUIS LUBETKIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

MEASURING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 789,112, dated May 2, 1905.

Application filed March 25, 1904- Serial No. 199,901.

To (LZZ whom, it ntay concern:

Be it known that l, JAooB BANNET, a subject of the Czar of Russia, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Measuring Devices, of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of this invention is to provide an improved measuring device particularly designed for use in measuring cloth or textile material wound into a roll on a board; and with this and other objects in view the invention consists in a device of the class specified constructed as hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view showing a bolt or roll of cloth and the method of using my improved measuring device; Fig. 2, a sectional side view of my improved measuring device, and Fig. 3 a plan view of said device.

In the accompanying drawings, I have shown at a a roll of cloth or textile material which is wound on a board 6 in the usual manner, and in the practice of my invention 1 provide a measuring device for the purpose specified which comprises an oblong member 0, which in the form of construction shown is composed of two similar side parts connected by a longitudinal and flexible back member 0, and the back part c is provided with a scale (Z, which represents hundredths of a yard, and, as shown in the drawings, the scale (Z represents twenty-five one-hundredths of a yard. Arranged longitudinally of the back of the member 0 is a rod 0, one end of which is secured in the back 0 of the member 0 at e and the other end of which passes downwardly through said back 0 of the member 0 adjacent to the opposite end of said member, as shown at 6 and is carried outwardly on the inner side of the back 0 of the member 0, 5 as shown at 0*, and is provided with a laterally-directed prong e and secured to the part 6 of the rod 0 on the inner side of the back 0 of the member 0 and adjacent to the lefthand end of said member is a flexible loop f, which passes through the back 0 as shown at f. Mounted on the rod 0 and free to slide thereon is a U-shaped gage 7, one arm g of which is shorter than the other and provided with an eye through which said rod passes, and the other arm g of the U-shaped gage 9 projects transversely of the member 0 and between the same and the rod 6 and is provided with a prong g. The member 0 of the measuring device which constitutes the body por- 6 5 tion thereof is preferably nine inches long, and, as is well known, the board 6 on which cloth or other textile material is wound is seldom, if ever, more than nine inches wide; but

it will be understood that the member 0 may 7 be made longer, if desired; but as shown in the drawings the scale 62! represents a quarter of a yard, or twenty-five one-hundredths of a yard. I also provide a computationchart /1, of paper, linen, or any other suitable flexible material, and this chart is adapted to be folded up between the separate parts 0 of the member 0, and in Fig. 2 of the drawings part of this chart is folded up and part extended, and in practice one edge of the chart is preferably secured in the member 0, so that said chart will be ready for use at all times. On the chart it are placed the results of certain calculations, which may be easily read or determined without the necessity of making 5 calculations each time that a roll of cloth is to be measured.

The method of computing the number of yards contained in a roll of cloth is as follows: The prong e of the measuring device is in- 9 serted into the roll between the board Z) and the first layer of cloth, and the measuring device is moved to the left until the prong e is at the left-hand edge of the board 6, as shown in Fig. 1, and the measuring device is held in this position by means of the loop f. The gage g, the prong g of which is also inserted into the roll of cloth between the board band the first layer of cloth, is then moved along the rod (a to the right until the right-hand edge of the board 7) is reached by the part g of the gage g, which is also projected into the roll between the first layer thereof and the board 5 and as is also shown in Fig. 1. In this position of the parts it will be noticed that the prong or part g of the gage g registers with the scale-mark 19 on the scale cl, and the board 6 is therefore nineteen-hundredths of a yard wide. The next operation is to pass a tape divided into hundredths of a yard around the roll a, the scale on the tape being similar to that on the member 0 of the measuring device, said scales being both di' vided into parts which represent one-hundredths of a yard. If, for illustration, it should be found that the circumference of the roll is equal to sixty-four parts, or sixty-four one-hundredths on the tape-scale, the next step will be to count the number of wraps or folds around the board 6, and if these, for example, are thirty-one in number I now have ,three measures or quantities from which to compute the amount of cloth in the roll, and

in order to make this computation I add to nineteen one-hundredths, the width of the board 6, thirty-two one-hundredths, or onehalf the circumference of the roll, and this is equal to fifty-one one-hundredths, and this multiplied by thirty-one, the number of wraps or folds in the roll, will give fifteen and eightyone one-hundredths, and this represents the number of yards in the roll.

The chart in is, as shown, provided at the left-hand end with a vertical column 2' of figures, beginning with 25 and ending with 100, and this column is separated by vertical parallel lines 71 from fifty other columns 7r, arranged in a similar manner, but only a part of which are shown, and which contain the computed amounts obtained in the manner previously stated, the last-named columns being separated from each other by blank spaces. The column 2 represents the number of folds contained in various rolls of goods or cloth. The chart is also provided at the bottom thereof with a horizontal row j of consecutive numerals ranging from 4:9 to 99, but only four of which are shown, and these numerals are placed directly under the vertically-arranged columns 70, containing the computed numbers or quantities or the results thereof and also in line with the numeral 100 at the bottom of the first column at the left, and the numerals in the horizontal row 1', which extend from L9 to 99, the 99 being not shown, have a twofold purpose, which will be explained hereinafter.

In practice in order to obtain the desired results by the use of the chart 71 the operation is as follows. The width of the board and the circumference of the roll are first obtained in the manner hereinbefore described, and the number of layers around the board in the roll are first determined in the manner hereinbefore described. For convenience I will use the same example already employed, in which the width of the board is nineteenhundredths, the circumference of the roll sixty-four hundredths, and the number of wrapsin the roll thirty-one. Now by adding one-half of the circumference of the roll, which is thirty-two hundredths, to the width of the board, which is nineteen hundredths, I have fifty-one hundredths. Now by referring to the chart h and to the numeral 51 in the bottom horizontal row jI find that it is at the foot of the third column of computations or examples, and by running up this column until I reach the line of calculations or examples opposite the given number of folds in the first column a, which is thirtyone, I have the result fifteen and eighty-one hundredths, which represent so many yards.

It will be clearly seen from the foregoing that the row of consecutive numerals j give the column in which to find the computed amounts or examples in the columns k and also gives the results for a roll of one hundred wraps, and it will also'be understood that the chart 7L (shown in the accompanying drawings) is for use by wholesale firms on full bolts or rolls of cloths or other fabrics, and a measuring device ofa similar class designed for use by retailers would be computed for smaller amounts or for parts of rolls or for rolls containing less than twentyfive wraps.

It will be apparent that any suitable support or holder may be substituted for the board b and a .roll of any kind or class of material rolled on a similar board or support may be measured by my improved measuring device in the manner herein described.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a measuring device for measuring cloth in the roll, a main member having a scale divided into hundredths of a yard, a rod con-v nected with said member and ranging parallel therewith, a laterally-directed prong connected with one end of the main member and adapted to be inserted into the roll of cloth adjacent to the board on which it is wound, and a gage mounted on said rod and movable thereon and provided with a prong which is also adapted to be inserted into the roll of cloth adjacent to the board on which it is wound, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of the subscribing witnesses, this 24th day of March, 1904.

JACOB BANNET.

Witnesses:

F. A. STEWART, C. J. KLEIN. 

